In a project designed to enable women to gain mathematical skills needed to expand their career opportunities, a special section of a college algebra course was offered. The section was for women only and was specially organized and staffed. Evaluation indicated the project was successful. (SD)

Describes the nature and consequences of liberally or improperly applying the traditional reading research methodology and provides an argument for tempering judgments about the relative contributions that experimental studies make to the professional literature in reading. (SKC)

The encoding specificity principle asserts that a retrieval cue will be effective if, and only if, the to-be-remembered item was specifically encoded with respect to that cue during input. Describes a classroom experiment that provides an opportunity to demonstrate the encoding specificity phenomenon, note its limitations, and discuss its cause…

This study was an experimental investigation of the effects on cognitive learning of training students to use behavioral objectives. (Editor)

College students were randomly assigned to seven note-taking and review conditions in order to determine the relative importance of the functions of encoding and either an externally provided or a personally produced memory device. (Editor)

Describes the library seminar, an experiment in the learning process in which a group of students learn individually and collectively through a book and in a library. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to offer a design for a project conducted by the school counselor that incorporates principles of behavior modification in dealing with classroom misbehavior in a traditional public junior high school setting. (Author)

This paper provides a guide to the minimum size of treatment groups, inferred from the relationships between pupil norms and norms for class averages of standardized achievement tests. (Editor)

The Ranschburg phenomenon is a process of memory interference caused by confounding of similar elements in discretely learned materials. (RS)

Experiments give students a practical awareness of pollution in its different forms. (RK)

Discusses the development of payment by results, an educational system practiced in England and Wales during the latter half of the nineteenth century. (Author/RK)

An educational experiment demonstrates that observer bias is a educational experiment demonstrates that observer bias is a factor in the evaluation of teaching. Argues that the function of a creative administrator is not to evaluate teachers for merit increments, but to foster a climate in which communication is possible between teacher and child,…